@cabdriver Then read more before you opine, please. King never wrote such an opening to a novel, ever: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” Man, that's good. Shirley Jackson was a master, occult kookiness or not, vagina or not. (Pacificwhim, response to post, “Is Shirley Jackson a great American writer?,” Laura Miller, Salon, 14 July 2010) Pacificwhim has it right Pacificwhim has it right. Chocolate cookieness or not, Shirley Jackson WAS a master. - - - - - Pacificwhim has it right Pacificwhim has it ri...